Construction Program Management Essay For City Of Newcastle Project. (70 Characters)

Overview of Construction Program Management

Question:

Discuss about the Multi Criteria Decision Model for Mining Projects.

Construction program management involves the process of scheduling the construction activities to deliver the project on time. The current report provides a work breakdown structure of construction project of City of Newcastle. It also identifies the dependencies and sequence of the constructional activities. Resource requirements and duration for the project are also discussed. Finally, the conflicts and leveling has been reviewed efficiently. 

The preliminaries in the construction provide the description of the project allowing the constructor to assess the cost that do not form a part of the package of works which is required in the contract as well as the method and circumstances of the works. Destination will be done on basis of excavation, formwork, concreting, substructure, services and external works. It should be done for the project. It should also ensure that all the estimation is done accurately and as for the required means of the project excavation process would include building foundation the materials and tool used for the earthwork. Excavation will be done using iron pen, basket, sledgehammer, boning rod and mark. Speed line and pins, drawing requirements will be used for excavation, which includes central line drawing in layout planning. The size of the formulation for the main walls will be set according to the depth as well as for the partition the corner benchmarks will be set up surveying the ground level as well as that of labels excavation will be done to improve left foundation (Fellers 2014).

The ground will be dressed making up to cut off level; the dewatering will still be constructed interconnecting the trenches and marking boundaries of the building. Excess soil will be removed and the quality checks for excavation will be done. The quality checks for filling will also be done finally for required dewatering compaction as well as density level that need to be achieved. Substructure will be constructed after the excavation has been done it would be based on Foundation level. According to Ja?ocha (2014), shallow formation are those foundation having depth less than its width, deep foundation are those foundation having depth more than its width. In case of shallow foundation, step footing will be used as well and isolated footing depending on the loads.

Structural design will be used for the deformation will be piling and raft footing. The piles that will be used are fictional piles in which the load will be there as negative skin friction of the piles. Moreover, the piling will ensure that whole structure withstands bad loading condition and the load is transferred to the soil respectively. Faster the pile, boards will be driven using the pile driving machine. It will take up at range of 8 to 13 with 1.2-meter diameter after the file has been dug. Steel reinforcement cages of piles will be put into the pile holes. Later concrete will be filled up using method and bentonite slurry will be used to prevent the side soils to collapse. After the piling has been constructed a pile cap will be constructed which will ensure that the total structural weight is carried and is transferred equivalent to the soil (Yumusak 2015). The pile structure as well as the pile cap should be monolithic that is the concrete should be done uniformly to prevent any kind of cracks or cold joins. The superstructure will be constructed throughout after the completion of substructure (Omar 2017). Superstructure will include main wall, partition walls, load bearing walls, design services including lighting, flooring, tiling, internal and external finishes. Various plumbing works will also include in the services. The final wall finish, distempering, whitewashing and coloring will also be done. External works including aesthetics interior design as well as carpeting will be done.

Work Breakdown Structure of City of Newcastle Project

Table 1: Spreadsheet of the dependencies and project activities

(Source: Created by the author)

The whole sequencing method has been derived as a result of effectiveness of the construction project and to maintain the innovation, scheduling and ideas. As per Samanta (2017), the major constraint of the project that has been kept in mind is the project budget as well as the time. Time and budget are the main constraints of the project and the project is estimated to be delivered within the time without any kind of delay. Moreover additional risk management has been taken before hand to ensure that the project does not exceed the budget cost

Table 2: Resource requirements and duration

(Source: Created by the author)

Table 3: Labor/plant productivity rates that has been used

(Source: Influenced from Rawlinsons 2008)

It was ensured that the allocation of the resources was done serially on time and the scheduling of all the activities possible within the available resources. The next time period was then moved on and repeated it (Sarhadi 2016). The same process and activities were assigned for the similar resources, preferences was given to the activities with the least slack. According to Sohi (2016), the non-physical activities were rescheduled for freeing the resources for the critical activities. In this process, the non-critical activities became critical and the completion time of the project was stressed. Effectively critical path comprising of activities having zero slack after completion of the resource leveling the resource smoothing was carried out for further optimization of the project (Teraiya 2016).

The ‘max units’ was assigned to the level of resource and was reset every time the schedule was loaded from the database. The project resource allocation less than load of enterprise resource, adjustments were done to the field with proper project allocation through resource leveling. The assignment units are also set against the assignment tasks. Further, the value is set during assigned resource to the task. Leveling process is also ensured to be the greater units that have been reached for the project. The peak for the resources was calculated as the rollup for the assignments, which are overlapped as well as requires movement of the assignment to other resources. The priorities of the task was set accordingly for leveling the resources as well that was accomplished using proper setting of dependencies such as the predecessors for short concrete works was set as 4SS+4d and so on.

Conclusion

It can be concluded that project management is an important factor that contributes towards the successful completion of a project. The work breakdown structure helps for resource leveling as well as resource smoothing activities that will ensure that no conflict for the end activities is taking place. For the Gantt chart produced, it helps a project manager to identify various kinds project scheduling as well as fix the constraints of the projects, time and budget. Moreover any deviation of the project from scheduling and plan budgeting can also be tracked and mitigated before hand as well.

References

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Omar, R. and Din, J., 2017. Risk Assessment Tool for Software Project in Malaysian Public Sector. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12(3), pp.527-533.

Samanta, B.K., 2017. Multi Criteria Decision Model for Mining Projects. The Journal of Modern Project Management, 4(3), pp.23-34.

Sarhadi, M., 2016. Comparing Communication Style within Project Teams of three Project-oriented Organizations in Iran. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 226, pp.226-235.

Sohi, A.J., Hertogh, M., Bosch-Rekveldt, M. and Blom, R., 2016. Does Lean & Agile Project Management Help Coping with Project Complexity?. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 226, pp.252-259.

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